Clothes-washing machine



Jan. 15, 1929. V 1,699,053-

|. M. DELLHEIM Filed Dec. 28, 1927 12" u 0 -f/ O 0 Q 0 3 0 o o (7 o o o0 0 0 O 0 0 0 O O O 0 -49 O Attarnqy Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

UNITED STATES ISABEL M. DELLHEIM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-WASHING MACKINE.

Application filed December 28, 1927. Serial in. 243,065.

The present invention has reference to a clothes washing device which isespecially adapted for use in connection with clothes l. ilers, or thelike, wherein the device may be disposed and employed for creating acirculation of the boiling water through the clothes contained withinthe boiler, as well as providing means for preventing the liability ofthe clothes being scorched or otherwise damaged by contact with theheated bottom of the boiler.

One of the paramount objects of the dc vice is to provide an attachmentfor clothes boilers of the character described, which may be adjustedfor disposition within boilers of various sizes, and upon which theclothes to be boiled are placed and thus will be maintained in spacedrelation with the bottom of the boiler, so that the same will be notscorched by contact therewith.

Another object is to provide such a device as this, which readily bedisassembled for the purpose of packing the same within a very smallcompass.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as the device isbetter understood from the specification and claim to follow.

In the drawing Figure 1 represents a top plan view of the device.

Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view through the same, while Fig.3 represents a fragmentary sectional view, disclosing the manner ofconnecting the pair of plate sections.

Now for a more detail description of the invention reference is made tothe drawings, in which like numerals designate like parts of theinvention. A pair of perforated substantially elongated plates 1-1, havetheir associating ends substantially straight, while their opposite endsare curved at the corners 2, and from thence outwardly to providesemi-circular projections 3.

The plates are each curved transversely and the semi-circularprojections are substantially of concavo-convex shape. The respectiveplates are curved downwardly at their respective longitudinal edgeportions, while one of said plates has its opposite longitudinal edgescurved downwardly and bent inwardly at 5, in spaced relation to itsadjacent portion, so that the curved longitudinal edge portion of thecomplementary plate may enbulges as at 4. The bulged portion of eachplate section is adapted to engage over the top portion of therespective cup-shaped supports, while its semi-circular edge portion 3will rest upon the shoulder 7 of the supp01 The supporting member isformed with a suitable number of indentures 9. through which water willbe admitted to the interior of the respective cup supports when thedevice is disposed within a conventional boiler, while at the topcentral portion of the respective cup supports, an opening 10 is formed.

A pair of tubes 1111 are tubular and open at their lower ends. A cap 12is provided for disposition upon the upper end of each tube, suitablemeans associated therewith, whereby the samewill be clearly associatedwith the tube when the device is in use, but which may readily beremoved when it is desired to clean the respective tubes.

The tubes are formed with a multiplicity of openings 13 arranged inlongitudinal and circumferential spaced relation. The lower end portionof each tube is threaded at 14, and adapted to depend through theregistering openings in .thebulg'e 4, and top of the cup member, so thata j ambnut 15 threaded inwardly on the threaded portion may engage thetop surface of the bulge 4, while a second jamb nut 16rnay be threadedon the end portion of the tube, and urged inwardly against the innersurface of the top of the support, for securing the tube in substantialperpendicular relation to the bottom of the boiler in which this deviceis constructed for disposition.

hen the plates have been properly associated with the supports and tubeand connected in slid-able relation with each other, the device isdisposed within the boiler so edge portion of the cup that the supportswill rest on the bottom thereof.

The device may then be extended so that the supports will engage theends of the boiler. Obviously, When clothes or any washable material isplaced within the boiler and upon the plates l1, the same Will besupported in spaced relation with the bottom oi the boiler.Consequently, water poured into the boiler will fill the spacebetweeirthe plates and the bottom of the boiler, so that when the samepasses the boiling point, the boiling water will percolate upwardlythrough the tubes, 11 to spout onto the clothes from the numerousopenings 13.

The boiling vvater in passing downwardly through the mass of clothes,will cause the dirt and foreign matter collected therein to bedisintegrated, eventually to pass through the perforated plate forsettlement upon the bottom of the boiler.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is In a clotheswashing device for disposition within a clothes boiler, a pair of hollowsupports, each of said supports being provided with a tube through whichwater may flow and an inlet for \vater, a perforated plate supported atone end on each of said eupports horizontally disposed, the longitudinalmarginal portions of the plates being transversely curved, and one ofsaid plates being provided along its longitudinal edges with means forelidably receiving, the other plate.

In testimony \vhereof I a'i'tix m 'o'natnre.

ISABEL M. DELLI-IinM.

